Extensa 5220

[Hannes Mayer]

Am Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:42:23 +0100
schrieb Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka at web.de>:

> On Donnerstag, 29. November 2007, Thomas Ilnseher wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 28.11.2007, 17:40 +0000 schrieb Carlos Corbacho:
> > > On Tuesday 11 September 2007 16:14:57 Thomas Ilnseher wrote:
> > > > I got this new laptop, with a lot of extra buttons on it.
> > > > I tried to write the fdi file according to the info on:
> > > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-keymap-report.html
> > > >
> > > > but it doesn't work. Any help is appreciated.
> > >
> > > Can you elaborate a bit further on "doesn't work"?
> >
> > I patched the file on my notebook, fiddled in
> > hal-0.5.10rc-something, rebooted, pressed these keys, and looked at
> > dmesg. Still, those 'use setkeycode' messages appeared. Also, by
> > doing 'lshal | grep key', I wasn't able to see any
> > input.keymap.data values.
> >
> > A lot of other things ceased working also, so I decided to go back
> > to hal-0.5.9 from my distro. It might be the case that I did
> > something wrong when installing hal-0.5.10, though.
> >
> > I recently noticed hal-0.5.10 appearing in portage, albeit with a
> > hard mask. once this hard mask disappears, I'll give it a try.
> >
> > > On Wednesday 28 November 2007 15:59:43 Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > > > @Carlos: Could you verify this patch? You are more familiar
> > > > with the Acer machines.
> > >
> > > Here goes.
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 11 September 2007 16:14:57 Thomas Ilnseher wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-acer.fdi
> > > > b/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-acer.fdi index
> > > > bcce56d..c59bc8e 100644
> > > > --- a/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-acer.fdi
> > > > +++ b/fdi/information/10freedesktop/30-keymap-acer.fdi
> > > > @@ -7,6 +7,29 @@
> > > >      <match key="@input.originating_device:info.linux.driver"
> > > > string="atkbd">
> > > >
> > > >        <match
> > > > key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.vendor"
> > > > prefix="Acer"> +        <match
> > > > key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.hardware.product"
> > > > prefix="Extensa">
> > >
> > > This is wrong - there is now an Extensa section in
> > > 30-keymap-acer.fdi (between 'Aspire' and 'Ferrari' - the list is
> > > alphabetically ordered); please add your 5220 entry to that
> > > section.
> >
> > will do
> 
> [...]
> 
> Any news here? Could you send a new patch?
> 
> Danny

I didn't start this thread, but this works for me

regards 
Hannes
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